Servant Leadership Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311794299
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Greenville, NC, USA
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,012
- Expenses
- $83,044
- Assets
- $14,821
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dr Seodial Deena (President)
People named in this filing
- Dr Seodial Deena (President)
- Dr Andrew Husbands (Treasurer)
- Dr Gail Stathis (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our Vision is to train leaders in all biblical truth so that they will be able to produce strong and growing disciples alongside of strong, growing, and reproducing churches. Our Mission is to travel and plant Bible training centers in Africa, Asia, and South America to teach leaders the nature of servant-leadership like Jesus Christ, to build dynamic local churches that can transform people, families, communities and nations and ultimately transform nations.Our Goals are to establish Servant Leadership Institutes in throughout Africa, Asia, and South America to train and equip leaders, and to establish printing facilities to print excellent leadership materials for leaders. Our Outreach is to reach present and potential pastors and other Christian leaders in West and East Africa, Central Asia, and South America with the goal of raising up tens of thousands of new pastors, evangelists, teachers and prophets in the coming years.
What it reported doing in 2025
Funding of small training centers in Africa, Asia, Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, North America, and South America for the development of Christian pastors, ministers, and leaders. The organization provides participants with face-to-face education and printed materials.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.8%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 95.6%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.3%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.8% of revenue deployed · 95.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.